Is The Amityville Horror scary?

Moderately so — The Amityville Horror mixes scares with other modes. As a family film, it scored 6.0/10 for fear, 7.9/10 for atmosphere, and 6.8/10 overall on Watch Darkly's curator scale across 1 rating.

How many jump scares are in The Amityville Horror?

The Amityville Horror has 17 jump scares, based on Watch Darkly's per-film jump-scare count.

What are some films like The Amityville Horror?

The Amityville Horror is tagged as family, possession, haunted house on Watch Darkly. The film's page lists similar horror films selected by curated scoring across fear, gore, atmosphere, and overall quality.

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The Amityville Horror

2005 · R · 1h 30m

What happened over the next 28 days has never been explained.

George Lutz, his wife Kathy, and their three children have just moved into a beautiful, and improbably cheap, Dutch colonial mansion nestled in the sleepy coastal town of Amityville, Long Island. However, their dream home is concealing a horrific past and soon each member of the Lutz family is plagued with increasingly strange and violent visions and impulses.

Plot summary via TMDB

Curator Score

6.8

Overall

Based on 1 curator rating

Carried by atmosphere.

Jump scares

The Amityville Horror has 17 jump scares. Compare counts

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6.8Overall

Fear6.0

Gore5.0

Atmosphere7.9

Genres

horrorthriller

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Details

Budget$19M

Box office$107.5M

Directed by

Andrew Douglas

Written by

Sandor Stern, Scott Kosar

Cinematography

Peter Lyons Collister

Music

Steve Jablonsky

Starring

Ryan Reynolds as George Lutz · Melissa George as Kathy Lutz · Jesse James as Billy Lutz · Jimmy Bennett as Michael Lutz · Chloë Grace Moretz as Chelsea Lutz · Rachel Nichols as Lisa · Philip Baker Hall as Father Callaway · Isabel Conner as Jodie Defeo

Production

Dimension Films, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, Platinum Dunes, Radar Pictures

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